My mom will especially appreciate this story, and maybe some friends in Bountiful cuz it is a blast from the past for sure!! MDK, you'll remember my 'london' haircut right? I think that's what you guys called it?I was hanging out with Laurie after a windy bike ride tonight eating dinner and watching TV when she flips it to her favorite channel Bravo to see if 'Work Out' is on. Shear Genius is on instead, another favorite of hers so we are watching this reality show about hair 'designers' when a familiar face appears. At first I thought it couldn't be him, he has a salon to run. But as I watch he just looks too much like himself not to be Tyson. The guy that chopped my hair off in high school and ended my modeling career! OK, a very melodramatic way of putting it, but it's my blog.
Laurie knew the story already so when I told her the little guy we were watching was the same guy she wouldn't believe me until his name was on the screen with SLC as his hometown.
So the story: One day I had long blond hair and on a fluke while I was working at the ski shop one night I decided to dye it dark brown myself when I got home. Of course it turned green and I freaked out crying like any girl would do. My mom took me to a salon to get it fixed the next day. It was now an ugly over processed brown but livable. A few days go by and Sunday I got a call from a guy named Tyson who I'd met at a Go See at the agency the week before and he said he'd gotten permission with my agent to use me in a hair show the following day. I know I'm not supposed to work directly with clients so this seems fishy but I go along with it because I'm young and gullible. I explained what I've done to my hair so he wanted to see me that night to do a pre color. I took my buddy Seth with me to his condo and he stayed there playing video games with some guy while Tyson and I went to his salon. It's already way late and by the time he is finished fixing my color and chopping a good 6" off of my hair it's probably 3 in the morning.
The next day for a Bed Head hair show he chopped my hair off even more so that it's now a long pixie-ish type thing that I know I can't possibly style on my own but what the heck right, it'll just grow back, no big deal.
Wrong. I went to my next Go See a couple of days later with a big time client from Tokyo and what do you know, she had picked my comp card in advance and as I talked to her she compared me with the me in my photos and realized I look nothing like them anymore. She called in an agent and everyone started asking a hundred questions about who authorized the change. Every one was pretty upset and you can guess that I didn't get to go to Japan.
Thank you Tyson. He did teach me a valuable lesson about tipping and I did do a few more hair shows for him. His buddy even took some fun (but not so great) head shots for me once.
So maybe I can't honestly say he killed my career before I ever had the chance to have one?
I was way too shy and never really into the whole modeling thing then anyway so it wasn't really his fault but 'what if' he hadn't lied to me that night and I had gone to that Go See with long blond hair like they like it in Asia. Who knows what could have happened. Ben would probably have that boat I promised him all those years ago!
I'm going to have to follow that show now to see if he gets eliminated. It's on right now actually!
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